Profit after tax increased to 139 million pounds ($215.41
million), compared with 99.5 million pounds in 2013. Gross
written premiums also rose by 9.8 percent to just over 1.3
billion pounds.

Chief Executive Mark Cloutier attributed these figures, and
a 38.4 percent increase in the firm's investment return over the
period, to a combination of falling bond yields, tightening
credit spreads and a "continued focus on strict cost control".

Brit, which recommended a cash takeover offer from Canada's
Fairfax earlier this month, has declared a final dividend of
12.5 pence per share plus a special dividend of 12.5 pence,
bringing total dividend for year, including its interim payout,
to 31.25 pence.

Watsa's Fairfax said it would buy Brit for some $1.88
billion to become one of the top five underwriters on the
Lloyd's of London market.
($1 = 0.6453 British Pounds)
(Reporting By Sinead Cruise, editing by Simon Jesspo)